Length of stay: an inappropriate readout of the success of enhanced recovery programs.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs are designed to reduce hospital length of stay by shortening the postoperative recovery period. The intended effect of an accelerated recovery on the length of stay may be frustrated by a delayed discharge. This study was designed to assess the influence of an ERAS program on the proportion, appropriateness, and extent of delay in discharge. METHODS:Patients who enrolled in the ERAS program (n = 121) between 2003 and 2006 were compared with 52 patients who were managed traditionally in 2001. RESULTS:Ninety percent of the pre-ERAS patients and 87% of the ERAS patients were not discharged on the day that discharge criteria were fulfilled. The additional stay of 59% of the pre-ERAS patients and 69% of the ERAS patients was inappropriate. Wound care (15% in the pre-ERAS and 3% of the ERAS group) and observation of any symptoms pointing to an anastomotic leakage (10% in both groups) were the most important reasons for a medical appropriate delay of discharge. The extent of delay in discharge decreased significantly from a median of two days in the pre-ERAS group to a median of 1 day in the ERAS group (p = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS:Reductions in length of stay up to a median of 2 days after start of an enhanced recovery program may relate to changes in organization of care and not to a shorter recovery period. Recovery statistics should replace or at least be added to the length of stay as outcome of enhanced recovery programs.

journal_name

World J Surg

journal_title

World journal of surgery

authors

Maessen JM,Dejong CH,Kessels AG,von Meyenfeldt MF,Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Group.

doi

10.1007/s00268-007-9404-9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-06-01 00:00:00

pages

971-5

issue

6

eissn

0364-2313

issn

1432-2323

journal_volume

32

pub_type

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